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Mile Mikolas joins FT + O's Legend Chris Davis on Birdland Territory · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Here he is, Miles. Michaelis joining us right now. I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know how to introduce you anymore. RBI machine,
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  Speaker 1: Miles Michaels. We immediately were like, we need to talk
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  Speaker 1: to Miles about this.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing, man, I'm doing good. I'm really happy
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  Speaker 2: to see my man b Rad on the Yeah, oh
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  Speaker 2: yeah on the mic here.
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  Speaker 3: First time man, first time, Glad you're coming into that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Brad was there. Brad was there day one for
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  Speaker 2: me in the big leagues. It's one of my day
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  Speaker 2: one dudes.
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  Speaker 4: How was he? I miss Miles.
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  Speaker 1: It's Miles for also, happy ten years of service here.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a big week for you doing You're
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  Speaker 1: standing out this week. So, uh, you're going viral. And
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  Speaker 1: I actually mentioned the other day I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: remember interviewing Miles at Winter meetings whatever ten to eleven years
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  Speaker 1: ago when you were signing your first contract back here
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  Speaker 1: and yes, then joining up with Brad.
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  Speaker 4: So how crazy has the ride been?
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  Speaker 2: It's been I mean from twenty twelve San Diego, Texas,
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  Speaker 2: all the way to Japan and and back again. It's
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  Speaker 2: been a it's been a long and winding road, but
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  Speaker 2: it's been a fun one.
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  Speaker 5: It's been a good one.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Miles, they're showing a picture of you that belt bunkle.
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  Speaker 3: What's the story behind that? Of course you don't want
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  Speaker 3: to watch you don't want the stuff. The guys usually
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  Speaker 3: gave what was what's up with the belt buccan?
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  Speaker 6: Again?
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  Speaker 2: I was so so Trevor Williams like as soon as
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  Speaker 2: like the season started, He's like, okay, like what do
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  Speaker 2: you want? We have a big conversation. He's like, what
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  Speaker 2: do you want? We want? You know, I've got all
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  Speaker 2: the fishing poles and stuff, and I think they have
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  Speaker 2: like something fishing related that that's kind of on the
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  Speaker 2: way for me.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I like the Western dress up stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I got a couple of horses down in Jupiter. My
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  Speaker 2: wife rides and stuff. But I might give it a
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  Speaker 2: shot when I'm when I'm retired. I thought, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a belt bunk is good thing because, like to have
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  Speaker 2: a real bell buckle, you have to earn it. Like
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  Speaker 2: I was talking to one of the other guys at
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  Speaker 2: the clubhouse, Clayton Veeter from Texas, and they give you like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you can go buy a belt buckle from
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  Speaker 2: a store, but you didn't really earn it, like you
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  Speaker 2: gotta you gotta get bucked off that Bronco or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: So I figured the only thing I could really do
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  Speaker 2: to earn a bell buckle is maybe get get my
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  Speaker 2: ten years. So, uh, that was that was kind of
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  Speaker 2: my idea. It'll look good, you know, in a case
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  Speaker 2: in the office. It'll look good on my belt when
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  Speaker 2: we go to Texas and we have our little you know,
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  Speaker 2: cowboy dress up.
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  Speaker 5: You know something I'm gonna cherish for a long time.
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  Speaker 7: I want to dive into you're at bat you had
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  Speaker 7: the other day. I know we were talking a little
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  Speaker 7: bit about it, but talk to us about that, what happened.
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  Speaker 7: Give us the whole backstory so all the fans can understand,
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  Speaker 7: you know, how this developed and what you did it
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  Speaker 7: took you. It's been a long time since you're had
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  Speaker 7: in that bat, So explain when the last time it.
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  Speaker 2: Was too Yeah, I think it's been a twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever we pitchers, whenever we stopped hitting. That was my
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  Speaker 2: last at Batuh. I remember my last at bat was
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  Speaker 2: a good hard line drive to shortstop, like one ten
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  Speaker 2: off the bat or something like that, A real missile.
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  Speaker 2: But I hadn't hit in a while. And the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the coaches coming to me and they're like, hey man,
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  Speaker 2: you got to get your cleats on, Like this is
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  Speaker 2: not a joke, it's not a drill, like you might
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  Speaker 2: have to do something. Because they started the lefty there
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  Speaker 2: and then we you know, we had made all our switches,
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  Speaker 2: so we're we're getting thin on the bench and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, put your cleats on.
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  Speaker 5: You gotta go take in a bat.
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  Speaker 2: They said, if there's a guy on third base, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna watch you to squeeze bunt or like safety squeeze.
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  Speaker 5: And I give the position players endless amounts of.
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  Speaker 2: Trash talking every time they don't get a bunt down
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  Speaker 2: because I think I got all my bunts down.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe not all.
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  Speaker 2: Good bunts, you know, maybe they throw the guy out
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  Speaker 2: at second base, but I get them all down. So
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  Speaker 2: when the position players don't get the bunts down, I
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  Speaker 2: give him tons of shit. So I knew I had
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  Speaker 2: to get this butt down. I was a little nervous.
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  Speaker 2: I impressed myself when I took ball one. I took
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  Speaker 2: ball one low. I was like, that's right, I'm seeing it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I got this guy and then I bunted the next one.
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  Speaker 2: Found I was a little worried. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: but then he you know, he put it right in
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  Speaker 2: my honey hole for bunting, that middle in pocket right
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  Speaker 2: there for bunting.
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  Speaker 5: Catch it off the label a little bit dead knit.
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  Speaker 5: It was a good bunt, Myles.
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  Speaker 3: You've always been the best athlete on every team. You
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  Speaker 3: let everybody know that too. But I just want to
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  Speaker 3: go back to getting to ten years, like, have you
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  Speaker 3: had a chance to take a second just kind of
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  Speaker 3: reflect on everything, like it's been kind of wild journey.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think people know you were a strict reliever
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  Speaker 3: along with meeting the Padre system and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 3: now you've pitched how many years as a starter. That's
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  Speaker 3: just kind of a crazy talk about the journey through
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  Speaker 3: all of it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I got to give a shout out to Scott Richmond
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  Speaker 2: if he's out there listening. He was one of the
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  Speaker 2: starters in Round Rock when I was in Trip A
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  Speaker 2: with the Rangers and I had just thrown like two
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  Speaker 2: or three innings in like a Randolay restart, and they
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  Speaker 2: come up to me in Round Rock and they're like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: rich hurt his back. We need a spot starter. We'll
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  Speaker 2: give you like fifty pitches. So I went out there.
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  Speaker 2: I want to say I threw like fifty pitches. I
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  Speaker 2: went like four or five innings and they're like, hey, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it was the year everyone was hurting Texas.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't have a lot of depth even in TRIPAA,
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  Speaker 2: and I was on the roster as a reliever, and
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  Speaker 2: they're like, hey, we're gonna let you start if you
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  Speaker 2: want to, like, we'll build you up. We'll give you
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  Speaker 2: like fifty sixty seventy pitches. And I was like, yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: you know what reliever doesn't want to be a starter.
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  Speaker 2: So I jumped at the opportunity. And I haven't really
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  Speaker 2: been back in a bullpen since. It was one of
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  Speaker 2: those like weird baseball stories where if Scott Richmond doesn't.
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  Speaker 5: Hurt his back, I don't really know, you know, where
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  Speaker 5: my career goes. I don't know if I go to Japan.
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  Speaker 2: I like to him at It's it's just it's so
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  Speaker 2: hard to know the way the way life and the
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  Speaker 2: way baseball is what happens.
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  Speaker 5: But it's it's Uh, it was wild.
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  Speaker 2: And when I started in Texas, I you know, I
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  Speaker 2: had my ups and downs and I didn't really get
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  Speaker 2: a chance to really sink my teeth into until I
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  Speaker 2: went over to Tokyo, which was one of the main
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  Speaker 2: reasons I went there to to get a full chance
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  Speaker 2: at starting, because I knew that that's what they wanted
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  Speaker 2: me to do. So to get a full chance at
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  Speaker 2: like building up innings and like learning how to pitch
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  Speaker 2: as the starter again, Uh, was huge. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: came back to the States and just been grinding it
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  Speaker 2: out ever since.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, most definitely.
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  Speaker 7: But I have to go back to this, this bunt
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  Speaker 7: Rbi that you got talk to me about the position players?
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  Speaker 7: What what did they say if they said anything to
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  Speaker 7: you about this? I mean, there's there's got to be
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  Speaker 7: some sort of conversation.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, the position players for us or the position players.
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  Speaker 2: On the on the Philly like when I was on
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  Speaker 2: the basis, because they were all kind of yeah at
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  Speaker 2: me when I was on the basis.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, go with the Phillies. And then your guys, why
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  Speaker 4: not tell them let's.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, Well, I you know, I got on first
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  Speaker 2: base and I just said, you know, I was talking
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  Speaker 2: to the first base coach and I was talking to
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  Speaker 2: Bomb about just like not being on base. And then
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  Speaker 2: ariahs was laughing at me because I was sweating bullets.
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  Speaker 2: It was humid, but my heart was beating like out
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  Speaker 2: of my chest because I hadn't gotten that bat in forever.
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  Speaker 2: And the guy's throwing like ninety seven, ninety eight or
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  Speaker 2: whatever was relievers throw too hard nowadays. And then I
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  Speaker 2: was talking to I was talking to Turner on shortstop
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, and then I was telling Scott how
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  Speaker 2: I didn't love being on third base with the rity up.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, this is the.
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  Speaker 2: Scariest thing I forgot how much I don't like it's
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  Speaker 2: your you know, you're getting your secondary And I'm like
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  Speaker 2: fifty sixty feet away from Japaro and he's swinging.
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  Speaker 5: For the moon, and I'm like, but I'm standing right here.
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  Speaker 5: You know, maybe he shoot something the other way.
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  Speaker 2: But the position players were just kind of in disbelief.
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  Speaker 5: They're like, they're like, wow, like, you know, good luck.
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  Speaker 5: They wanted me to swing. Some of the guys wanted
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  Speaker 5: me to swing. I had, I had the liberty to swing.
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  Speaker 2: If I got to two strikes, oh, I was gonna
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  Speaker 2: pull back and maybe slash. But because they started to
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  Speaker 2: pull the infield in but uh, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: deep down as a competitor. I just wanted to get
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  Speaker 2: that run across. You know, I wanna we're on a skid.
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  Speaker 2: I want to win that ball game. But everybody was pumped.
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  Speaker 2: I used uh, I used one of J wise bats.
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  Speaker 2: I just got like a pair of random batting gloves.
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  Speaker 2: And I used uh Pickney's helmet before he even got
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  Speaker 2: a chance to use it uh in a game, because
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  Speaker 2: he was making his debut. He hadn't even gotten that
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  Speaker 2: bat yet, and I had to steal his helmet from him.
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  Speaker 2: But I left my magic in there because then he
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  Speaker 2: hit a home run. His his first hit was a
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  Speaker 2: home run the next day, just like me, my first
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  Speaker 2: hit was a home run. So I'm pretty sure that
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  Speaker 2: it was, you know, some of my leftover mojo helping
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  Speaker 2: him do that.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe, but probably not, But I like to think that maybe.
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  Speaker 3: There you go, so you have a you have at
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  Speaker 3: least that piece of history of his career from now on.
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  Speaker 3: So uh, just knowing the competitor you are. What's been
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  Speaker 3: what's been the biggest struggle this year? And kind of
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  Speaker 3: is it? Is it just getting tough for getting older
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  Speaker 3: or is it just kind of what's been what's been
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  Speaker 3: going on so far?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's it's uh, you know, it'd be you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's cliche to say it's a young man's game these days,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean I'm looking up at the scoreboard and
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  Speaker 2: there's kids in the box that were like still in
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  Speaker 2: diapers when I was in high school, and I'm kind
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  Speaker 2: of like, oh, man, like, uh, I could technically be
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  Speaker 2: your dad, but not.
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  Speaker 5: So it's just kind of you know, guys are swinging.
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  Speaker 2: Hard at everything, and you know, it is it is
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  Speaker 2: tough for getting older. But I'm just, you know, i
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  Speaker 2: gotta be you know, I'm at that point where I
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  Speaker 2: need to nibble probably a little bit more.
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  Speaker 5: And I've never been one to like to be a nibbler.
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  Speaker 2: I'm stelling the duggout, yelling nibbler at the other guy
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  Speaker 2: when he walks somebody, and then I refuse to like
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  Speaker 2: walk people. So then I'm just throwing stuff in the
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  Speaker 2: zone and getting hit around a little bit every now
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  Speaker 2: and then. So you know, there's there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: give and take there, and you know, it's it's it's
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  Speaker 2: it's trying to evolve and trying to get better mid season.
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  Speaker 2: But everybody, everybody, the coaching staff, the trainers, the the
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  Speaker 2: strength coaches here in d c Or are great.
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  Speaker 5: You know, they're helping me every step of the way.
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  Speaker 5: It's been Uh, it's been really fun to be here.
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  Speaker 2: It's been fun to be on such a young team,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with the young coaches, I feel energized a
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  Speaker 2: little bit.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like I'm getting younger every day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, some miles last one here we got. You know,
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  Speaker 3: trade deadline is kind of the hot topic right now.
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  Speaker 3: What what what are the Indians getting in Foster Griffin
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  Speaker 3: with that trade? Do you like, good move for them?
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  Speaker 3: Or you can play GM, you can play media here,
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  Speaker 3: you can play whatever you want. But just what you
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  Speaker 3: got on him moving over to Cleveland.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean they're getting They're getting a great pitcher
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  Speaker 2: and a great teammate. He's the decent card player, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, solid golfer. But but jokes aside. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the guys you know, he's he's polished. You know, he's
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  Speaker 2: got seven pitches. He locates, and I think the thing
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  Speaker 2: that's great about Foster is he knows exactly what he
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  Speaker 2: wants to do before he throws that first pitch. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I sit there in the locker and I I kind
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  Speaker 2: of you know, watch his his pre star meetings. I
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  Speaker 2: listened a little bit. I'm eaves dropping. I'm dropping a
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  Speaker 2: little bit.
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  Speaker 5: Of Eves there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's got his binder and he goes out
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  Speaker 2: there and he's calling. I believe he's calling most of
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  Speaker 2: the game himself with his little pitch com He just
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  Speaker 2: he knows exactly what he wants to do. He knows
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  Speaker 2: the guys that he's gonna run that cutter in, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, he knows his sequences, and it's fun to
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  Speaker 2: kind of pitch along with him. Like after watching him
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  Speaker 2: a couple starts, you watch him like, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: cut her in and he.
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  Speaker 5: Works a big sweeper.
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  Speaker 2: Then he'll go like that big fading change up to
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  Speaker 2: that little small split and then he'll sneak a heater
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  Speaker 2: by a guy and then he can speed him back
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  Speaker 2: up with that cutter.
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  Speaker 5: He just he knows exactly where to throw all his pitches.
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  Speaker 5: He knows how they work.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's the reason he's been so successful
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  Speaker 2: coming back, because not only is he a new look,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's essentially a rookie again because he's been
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  Speaker 2: in Japan for three years and teams are getting their
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  Speaker 2: first look at him, but he's all ready to pick
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  Speaker 2: He's he's ready to pick them apart because he knows
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  Speaker 2: exactly what he wants to do. And I think that's
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  Speaker 2: and I think he rubs off on a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the other pitchers on the staff because they see that
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  Speaker 2: preparation and they see how successful it is. So I
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  Speaker 2: think they're the Indies are getting a great They're getting
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  Speaker 2: a great pitcher, a great teammate, and maybe he've been
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  Speaker 2: like a little bit of a roll model for for
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  Speaker 2: some of their younger guys. If if they're paying attention
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  Speaker 2: to what he's.
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  Speaker 1: Doing, that that's an elite scouting report right there. Miles,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. Man, really appreciate the time. We
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  Speaker 1: love doing this. Hope you do too, and have fun, dude,
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  Speaker 1: and congrats Brad's first show.
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  Speaker 4: You got him.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is his first show, first show on FT,
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  Speaker 1: he does first f T show, So he's got it.
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  Speaker 1: He's got the chops.
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  Speaker 2: And a while, I've got a chance, while I've got
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  Speaker 2: Fraser's here. One of my favorite all time baseball plays
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  Speaker 2: is the foul ball in the stands the Mets with
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  Speaker 2: the foam, with the fake baseball. I see that highlight
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  Speaker 2: that's like my my top top five all time baseball
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  Speaker 2: play seven the most like Ruth like this is the best,
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  Speaker 2: this is the best. I'm watching My god, what a
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  Speaker 2: what a savvy bet.
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  Speaker 5: Just shows.
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  Speaker 2: The eve the most heads of play in baseball.
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  Speaker 4: Very fortuitous.
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  Speaker 1: That's how was we got lucky there, lucky and sneaky smooth,
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  Speaker 1: sneaky smooth.
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  Speaker 4: So thank you, Miles, good catching up man.
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  Speaker 5: All right, thanks for having me on. I'll talk to
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  Speaker 5: you guys.
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  Speaker 8: Letter Aos fans welcome in a special edition of Birdland
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  Speaker 8: Territory Steve, tim Brad and Chris Davis today as it's
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  Speaker 8: a big week in Birdland this weekend. Chris, along with
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  Speaker 8: Storm Davis and the late Scout Jim Russo, going to
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  Speaker 8: be inducted into the Orioles Hall of Fame. The big
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  Speaker 8: luncheon will be Friday the oriel Advocates and the ceremony
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  Speaker 8: on field ahead of the Orioles Phillies.
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  Speaker 9: Game Saturday night.
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  Speaker 8: Oriols dot com they get tickets for either the luncheon
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  Speaker 8: or the game or both, and we can't wait to
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  Speaker 8: see our friend Chris Davis in town this weekend.
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  Speaker 9: Chris, you know what a career you had in Birdland.
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  Speaker 8: Man, you were crush Davis for all those years, and
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  Speaker 8: the and the Oil fans couldn't wait to see it
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  Speaker 8: hit one out. We know there were struggles at the end,
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  Speaker 8: went through so much ups and downs. You know, when
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  Speaker 8: you think about this on or now and being back
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  Speaker 8: this weekend, what thoughts come to mind a little bit
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  Speaker 8: of relief?
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  Speaker 6: To be honest with you, I was super excited when
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  Speaker 6: when Bill called me. I was actually on the on
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  Speaker 6: the field on a softball field watching or coaching my
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  Speaker 6: uh my two youngest and and we all know Bill
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  Speaker 6: Steck is the Oils alumni guy, but we know him
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  Speaker 6: as the kind of the Hall of Fame guy too,
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  Speaker 6: So when he called.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: Me, I was like, is it my turn? Is it? Buck?
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: Who's it gonna be? So, man, I was super excited.
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: You know, obviously there were struggles at the end, But
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: when I really think back to the first you know,
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: five or six years there and the group of guys
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: that we had, and just I think I said it
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: to Oda yesterday, being a part of such a story
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: franchise and being able to bring winning baseball to that
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: franchise made a great deal. And to do it with
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: uh with good dudes with good human beings.
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: Man, it just it meant a lot to me.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Chris Man, I think back to you know, coming
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: over to Baltimore. I don't think I ever even told
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: you this, but you were the one that helped really
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: make me feel comfortable, just you know, spending times in
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: the hot tubs and the cold tubs and stuff like that.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: When when you came over to Baltimore, was there anybody
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: that kind of stood out to you that kind of
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: helped you feel comfortable.
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: Coming to a new organization.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I knew Wheedy.
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: I played with Weeders in the high school All American Game,
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: so like we we kind of knew each other. And
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: by that time, I mean, I had spent parts of
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: three years in the Big League, so I knew I
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: knew of Mark Cakus.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: We all know Nikki.
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: He doesn't talk a ton and he definitely doesn't talk
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: between the lines. But I was familiar with some of
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: the guys. I knew JJ a little bit. But but
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: one of the things I think that helped me so much,
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: Brad was having so many guys from the Rangers organization
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: the next year, so, I mean, getting traded in the
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: middle of the season's kind of it's kind of a
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: weird deal because you get thrown right into the middle
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: of the mix and you kind of have to find
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: your way.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: And for me, I was trying to, you.
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: Know, establish myself as an everyday player, so that was
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: kind of at the forefront of my mind. But I
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: think really the biggest thing that helped me was having
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: Oday Tommy and I got traded with tom and two,
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: so we kind of both went through that journey together.
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: But it was just such a good group of guys,
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: you know, this brad like it was. It was a
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: lot of There were a lot of guys on that
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: team that had been kind of cast excuse me, cast off.
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: They had been you know, released, or signed, claimed off
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: waivers or traded, and I think that really helped us
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: kind of form an identity as a team and and
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: helped us win.
• 17:43
  Speaker 10: To be honest with you, Chris, you mentioned how special
• 17:47
  Speaker 10: it was to bring winning back to Baltimore. You got
• 17:50
  Speaker 10: traded in twenty eleven and twenty twelve, the team just
• 17:54
  Speaker 10: had fourteen consecutive losing seasons to get back to the
• 17:57
  Speaker 10: playoffs and win that first ever wildcard game against the Rangers.
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: The Alds it was a madhouse against the Yankees. Just
• 18:05
  Speaker 10: how special of a season was twenty twelve for you
• 18:08
  Speaker 10: and the organization?
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was huge.
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: It was huge for me personally because it was the
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: first time that I had really kind of come into
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: my own. I think I led the team in home
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: runs that year. I hit thirty home runs in the
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: big leagues for the first time, which was a big
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: deal to me. But I think the coolest thing to
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: your point about all the play in game or whatever
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: they call it, the Wildcard game, we had like seven
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: or eight dudes from that Rangers team that went to
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: the World Series the year before, or that was in
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: that organization, and we beat them on their own.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Field, and I thought that was so cool.
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: I played right field because Nikki got hit by CC
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: and message riss up. But I remember standing in the
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: stadium in the ballpark in Arlington, which is where you know,
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: I grew up watching Rangers games, and just be feeling
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: so proud to be a part of such a like
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: a story and a franchise that had such a rich history,
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: that has so many Hall of famers, that had so
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: many icons in the game of baseball. I remember standing
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: in ruckfield and be like yes, like this is awesome,
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: and it was just a good group of dudes. Man,
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: can't I can't, you know, overemphasize that, Like, I can't.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: I can't emphasize that enough. Those guys were just like
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: we were brothers. Brad, You're a part of it, man.
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: Like we did stupid stuff like crab races for fantasy
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: football picks and team dinners, and I mean we all
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: had kids together and our wives were all close.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: It was just a it was just such a special
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: group man.
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: Chris Davis coming back to Baltimore this weekend for the
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: Oriol Hall of Fame, The Oriol Advocates lunch and Friday
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: on Field Ceremony Saturday Storm Davis no relation coming back
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: part of the nineteen eighty three World Series champs. He
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: had a big role when the Ools last wanted and
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: Jim Russo, the late scout executive for the Oriols, came
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: from Saint Louis when the team came in fifty four
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: stayed for over thirty years. This guy signed Jim Palmer,
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: Dave Johnson, the second Basement Boom pal many others, and
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: was part of scouting the Dodgers for the sweep in
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: sixty six. A lot of people credit Jim Russo for
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: the advanced reports that helped the Orioles sweep the Dodgers. So, Chris,
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: you mentioned that twenty twelve season twenty thirteen is I
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: think maybe when Crush Davis was really born set single
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: season records for the Orioles to this day that stand up.
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: Fifty three homers, one hundred and thirty eight regbies, ninety
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: six extra basits. I remember the start of the year.
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: I've never seen a player of sixteen RBIs in four
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: games to start the year as you did.
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: Can you remember did it seemed like a beach ball
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: to baseball at that time?
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah? It did.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: And I remember getting seen. The game that I remember
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: the most is the opening day game in Baltimore, and
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: opening days always special. The stadium's always packed, and I mean,
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: obviously I had a soft spot for game of yards
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: and the fan base, but I remember seeing a stat
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: I was sitting in the clubhouse before the game started
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: that day and I had more RBIs than like a
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: couple of teams combined, and I'm like, this is a
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: good start to the season. And I think probably the
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: thing that I remember the most, and I still get
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: chills when I think about it. Is hitting the Grand
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: Slam to put us ahead off of Tyler Robertson. And
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: the reason why I remember it the most is I
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: remember going around the bases and just hearing the crowds
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: here and like really feeling the energy of the stadium
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: for the first time. I got a little taste of
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: that the year before in the playoffs when we played
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: the Yankees, Tim and so.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: I knew what it could be.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: But I remember going back at looking at the video
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: and Nate mccloth standing off their base, going back to
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: the bag and had his hands on his head and
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: he was saying.
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: Oh my god.
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: I thought it was hilarious. But we had a conversation
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: after the game. He was like, do you realize, like
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: how ridiculous this started. I was like, yeah, I'm really
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: trying not to think about it. I'm really trying not
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: to talk about it. I'm just trying to keep going.
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: So it was definitely the hottest I've ever been to
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: start a season, and I'm just glad that I had
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: guys shared with many hit like ninety six or ninety
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: eight doubles that year or fifty something, I don't remember.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: He had an insane amount of doubles, so he was
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: always on base. Jonesy and I used to joke like
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: many would get on second and Jones he would roll
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: over and get him over and I just.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Drive him in.
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: So it wasn't just me. I mean, obviously was extremely hot,
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: but man, I had a lot of guys. There was
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: a lot of traffic on bases and on the bases,
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: and it was it was just really cool to be
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: a part of that.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously, I mean on the on field stuff speaks
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: for itself.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Unbelievable seasons.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: But I I want to give you a chance to
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: kind of talk about the extremely generous gift you and
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Jill gave to the hospital there, and is there a
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: backstory to it, and like your relationship with the hospitals
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: and everything. I just want to give you a chance
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: to kind of to talk about that a little bit.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: No, I appreciate that. Sorry, I appreciate that.
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: There is so b rob Brian Roberts took me to
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: the children's hospital for the first time.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: I can't even remember.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: What year it was, maybe twenty twelve, but I just
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: remember him asking, Hey, do you want to go to
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: the children's children's hospital. It's kind of something that you
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: know is means a lot to me and Diana and
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: I think it'd be cool for your experience, and so
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: I said, yeah, for sure, and and so I went
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: to the hospital, and I mean, if you've ever been
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: in a in a an environment where kids are going
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: through the things that they're going through and you get
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: to be around them, it's it's hard not to be
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: impacted by that, and it's it's really hard not to
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: want to get involved in to try to help those people,
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: especially when you start to talk to some of the
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: parents and you start to understand understand some of the
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: struggles that they're going through and just the time commitment
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: that it takes for them to be there. So with
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Jill having a nursing background, it was an easy guess
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: for us. And I think really the more we more
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: time we spent there, the more we really wanted to
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: get involved.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: We just didn't know what that looked like.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: And so I basically asked Steven Zen, Who's who's one
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: of the doctors that will actually see this week when
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: we go up there.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: I just asked him. I was like, what y'all's biggest
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: need here? And he talked about the cath lab and
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: asked how much he needed, and that's kind of where
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: it went, you know.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: And and I didn't I didn't know at the time
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: that it was going to be as big of a
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: deal as it was because it wasn't about that. But
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: it's something that that still means a lot to us.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: I mean, we still talk to him on a pretty
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: regular basis and are still going to be involved, you know,
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: for the rest of our lives.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: I'd love to see one of the other.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: Guys on the team now start to get involved because
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: it is such a unique relationship. And so maybe that's
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: a conversation I'll have with somebody when I go up there.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: It's awesome.
• 24:49
  Speaker 10: That's that's awesome stuff, Chris, and and you know, a
• 24:52
  Speaker 10: lot of the guys, especially of that era, really gave
• 24:55
  Speaker 10: back to the city. And Chris, you've mentioned a multiple time.
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: Tis now just how good of a group of guys
• 25:03
  Speaker 10: it was. And you think of twenty twelve through sixteen,
• 25:06
  Speaker 10: especially winning the most games in the American League, but
• 25:09
  Speaker 10: it just seemed like you guys were having so much fun,
• 25:11
  Speaker 10: right like with all the postgame pies and just all
• 25:14
  Speaker 10: the Shenanigans going on, Like it just seemed like such
• 25:18
  Speaker 10: a special blend of extremely talented players but also just
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: really good dudes that I think this city really embraced
• 25:26
  Speaker 10: because of that.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: No doubt, no doubt.
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: That's probably one of the things that I hear the
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: most about that group of guys from fans is that.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: They we we were relatable.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: They enjoyed coming to the field because we really they
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: seem they seem we really seemed like we cared about
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: each other because we did. I remember the pie celebration
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: was awesome to me. Steve Pierce run that, by the way,
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: I just want to I'm gonna I'm gonna throw him
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: under the right now. Yeah, Jonesy busted his lip and
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: then they were like, y'all can't have positivemore because we're like,
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: he's a grown man.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: It's just a busted limb. Let us hour a part.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: But but it was just a good group.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Of guys, Like I mean, seriously, we we hung out
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: together off the field. After I pitched in Boston, I
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: always wanted to go to a bullpen dinner and Brocky,
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: you know bullpen dinner's about, but I was never invited
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: because I wasn't a part of the bullpen. And I
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: remember after I pitched in Boston, I told Jim Johnson
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: on the flat back home, I said, Hey, I'm going
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: to bullpen dinner now, dude. And so I went to
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: He's like, you're good, You're good, you go to bulk.
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: So we went out to UH.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: We went.
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: I went out to a bullpen dinner UH in Anaheim
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: and we had a great time. And I'm like, we
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: should always do we should do this like it's funny
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: because position players don't hang out as much as pitchers do.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: And so for a while, oday Odaiy and I were
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: obviously really close. We I was like the only position
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: player that would hang out with the pitchers. But we
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: just had a good group of guys that enjoyed being
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: around each other. We wore each other out, we gave
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: each other a hard time, but we really cared about
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: each other. And I think that really gives you a
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: good on field product because you have that chemistry when
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: when things get tough. Man, we had some rough stretches,
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: but I think knowing that we had each other's back
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: and knowing that we cared about each other helped us
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: to get out of those rough stretches.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Well, Chris, you bring up the.
• 27:09
  Speaker 10: Relief appearance that you had in Boston, which is insane
• 27:13
  Speaker 10: two innings like now that's out the window with this
• 27:16
  Speaker 10: new extra innings for man and the only time you
• 27:19
  Speaker 10: see position players, it's the team's getting killed one way
• 27:21
  Speaker 10: or another. Just what was it like getting that, you know,
• 27:25
  Speaker 10: Buck coming up to you just experience, like did you
• 27:28
  Speaker 10: go in with a lot of confidence that you could
• 27:30
  Speaker 10: you know, come through.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: There, like absolutely not.
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: I'm pissed in six years and I wasn't that good
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: when I pused in Collars Man, So I always said,
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: you know, coming up for some teams that looked at me,
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: I think out of high school and out of college
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: as a picture.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: But I was our thrower.
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: But I'm thankful that I had Skip Johnson as a
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: college coach because he's one of the best pitching coaches
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: in the country. And I was literally like, okay, keep
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: your front side closed, like don't fly out, like trying,
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: and I'm doing it. I think the fact that I'm
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: so naive at times really played into my favor because
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: I was I remember warming up in the bullpen and
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: Bill Castro was our bullpen coach. And he's like, all right,
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: what do you got? And my ball, naturally, I think
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: just from my arm slot has a has a little sink.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: That's probably why I didn't stay at third base very long.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: And Bill Castro was like okay, and then I threw
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: a slaughter and he's like, no, that's not gonna work.
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: Well that's you got, And I was like, I threw
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: a split because I can't throw a change up and
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: he's like, and I threw it.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: He's like, okay, go get him, kid, and I'm like,
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: that's it. Like, there's no it was. It was fun.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: Looking back on it, I realized how crazy it was.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: I don't think I think having such a bad day
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: at the plate. I was just kind of pissed off,
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: And I'm like, well, if you know, if it's I'm
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: either going to be the complete goat or I'm something
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: great is gonna happen.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Uh. And thankfully Jonesy cut.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: That ball off in the outfield and made an unbelievable
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: play to throw.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: It to JJ, and JJ threw through to weeding.
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: We got Marlon Bird out at home or else, I'm
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: we would have never had the designatory truth. It's crazy, man,
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: I will say this, it gave me a greater appreciation
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: for being in the center of the diamond with nobody
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: else around you.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: I'm like, this is a very very lonely place.
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: At least when you're in the batter's box you got
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: a couple of people there. But man, you are in
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: the center of the diamond and you're holding the ball,
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: so it's like everybody's watching you.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: But it was fun.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: I give Buck a lot of credit for making that
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: call because that really changed our season.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: I mean, we had we we won that series, we won.
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: The next series, and we kind of started rolling and
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: so that was a that was a big game for
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: us to win.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: But man, it was crazy.
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: Spend some more time with Chris Davis, who's headed to
• 29:44
  Speaker 8: the Oriol Hall of Fame this weekend along with Storm
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: Davis and Jim Russo, and you can get tickets for
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: Friday's luncheon or Saturday's game in ceremony. Go to oriols
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: dot com. The Oil Advocates.
• 29:56
  Speaker 9: Put on a great luncheon every year for the Hall
• 29:58
  Speaker 9: of Famers, and this money will be special Saturday. A
• 30:02
  Speaker 9: lot of your teammates are coming back.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: Chris, you noted a few.
• 30:04
  Speaker 9: I think Brad's going to be in town and some
• 30:07
  Speaker 9: of those guys.
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: And so let's go back to when you were traded
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: to the Orioles from the Rangers in Trade Deadline twenty eleven.
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: You and Tommy Hunter. You're good buddy for Koji Yuhara.
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: Some people remember that trade worked out for you well
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: for in Birdland. You've told the story before that the
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: two of you had different reactions to that trade.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: Is that correct?
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: That is that is we were in two different places,
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: and Tommy had started a World Series game the year before,
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: and I thought was very much in the mix for
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: the Rangers, who ended up going back to the World
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: Series again. Here in twenty ten, I was on the
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: taxi squad, which basically means I was suiting up to
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: sit there and watch the game, but I wasn't available
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: unless somebody got hurt or something like that happened. So
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: I was grateful to be there and to get to
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: experience that environment, but it was really hard to sit
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: there and watch the team that you had been with
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: for the last couple of years that you had had
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: some success with go out and compete in the World
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: Series and not get a chance to be a part
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: of that, so I was ready to get out of there.
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: I think just being a part of that organization. And
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: I'm extremely grateful to the Texas Rangers for drafting me
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: and giving me the opportunity to play.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: In the big leagues.
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: But I think the fact that the farm system was
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: so loaded and that there were so many guys there
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: was kind of a log jam at first base, and
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: so I was ready to get out of there. I
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: was willing to do anything, play the outfield, play third
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: base base. Signed Beltrade the off season of twenty ten
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: going into twenty eleven season, so there wasn't really a
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: place for me.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: So I was fired up when I got traded. We
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: were in Toronto, I'll never forget.
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: I was sitting to my hotel room and Scott Boris
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: called me and was like, you got traded, and I
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: was like, where.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: Am I going? And before we knew it.
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: Was BALTI before I knew it was Baltimore, it was
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: either San Diego or Baltimore, and San Diego had shown
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: interest in spring training for potentially I think it was
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: heat Bell was their closer. The Rangers were trying to
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: get it back in Bullpiece, and so I really thought
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: it was gonna be San Diego.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: And he said, you're going to Baltimore and I was
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: like Baltimore And he's like.
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they traded you. They traded for you and Tommy
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: for Coach u Are And I was like, man, Coachy
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: is an all star, like he's there, and I'm like, okay,
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: who's in Baltimore? Buck Kirby, I'm like, okay, I know
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: Weedy And I'm like, sweet, I'm gonna get a chance
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: to play, Like I'm gonna get a chance to play
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: every day.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: And so I was super fired up. I think Tommy.
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: Was was discouraged because I think he was kind of
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: blindsided by it. But but yeah, I mean it worked
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: out really well for both of us because Tommy was coming. God,
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: I think he had gotten injured and they put him
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: in the bullpen, but he didn't really have a specific role,
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: and he was huge for us out of the bullpen
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: in Baltimore, as you guys know.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I was fired up. Man. I just wanted
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: to play baseball.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: And I didn't know a ton about the Orils organization
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: other than Cal and Brady and you know the nostalgia
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: of Camden Yards.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: But but I was.
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: I was just so fired up when I got up there,
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: and I'm thankful that we won. Uh if y'all remember
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: to kind of close out the twenty eleven season and
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: then and then start up continue to win for the
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: next few years.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: So I was just I was just super excited.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Chris, was there anything like when you came over
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: to Baltimore? Was it just was it just the fact
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: of getting a shot to play every day? Or was
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: it a certain coach or was it just like what
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: was the what helped you become the player you?
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: You obviously were in Texas.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: It just didn't happen there, But like what caused that
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: to kind of just kind of you know, happened when
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: you got to Baltimore.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it was a number of things.
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: I think getting away from home, Like I grew up
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: in East Texas, I grew up a Rangers fan. There,
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: there was a lot of pressure that I put on myself.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: But I also had a ton of family and friends
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: that were always there and I'm thankful for them. But
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: it just, as you know, it adds another dynamic and
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: it has another element to kind of an already stress
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: the situation, and you just you have to get baseball
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: your your whole life when you're in it to be
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: able to compete at that level. So I think really
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: getting out of a place where everybody knew me as
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: a certain player and getting a chance to restart with
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: a new fan base and a new new team was
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: just refreshing for me. The other thing was Buck Show.
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: Walter Buckets is gonna I'm gonna give Buck a lot
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: of credit. I sat down with Buck and was very
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: honest and I said, look, this is this is where
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: I'm at. I'm out options, so you can't send me down,
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: you know, but I want the chance to play every day.
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: And he told me, he straight up said you're gonna
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: get the chance, but it's not an open ended ticket.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: He's like, you're gonna have to prove that you can
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: play here and he goes, and I think you can.
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: And having Kirby there too was big deal because Kirby
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: knew me. We had history. He was the field.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: Coordinator, the Roman field coordinator for the Rangers.
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: When I was there, So having some familiar faces and
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: knowing that I was going to get an opportunity to
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: play was really big, and thankfully I was able to
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: capitalize on the opportunity, and I think also being able
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: to play different positions and being willing to do that
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: helped me out a bunch because I kind of moved
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: around a lot in twenty twelve. But it was, yeah,
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: I mean, just to change the scenery. Man, it's huge,
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: It really is.
• 35:24
  Speaker 10: Chris, what was it like just being a part of
• 35:27
  Speaker 10: lineups that just absolutely mashed? I mean, you guys led
• 35:30
  Speaker 10: the majors and home runs for multiple years. It was
• 35:33
  Speaker 10: what Nelson, you Trumbo leading the majors and home runs?
• 35:37
  Speaker 10: Like there really was no soft spot in that mineup.
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: No, there wasn't. It was awesome.
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: I've got a good buddy who pitched for the Indians
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: for a long time, Cody Allen, and he made his
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: debut against us in Cleveland and he was like, dude,
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: it's like y'all were rolling out guys that were six three, six'
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: five six. Six he was, like your second basement was six'
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: Four and i'm like talking about scope, and yeah yeah
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: we had some Big boos and, he's like y'all looked
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: like a bunch of, professional.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: Wrestlers, and yeah. We did it, was, Fun man like
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: we we had such a unique Lineup because we had
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: Guys like jonesy who could steal, A base nate who
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: could steal. A base nick he could run every now
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: and then if you. Wanted to we had guys that
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: would get. On base nick was so big.
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: For our lineup at the top of, the lineup and
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: he was big for me because he was another left.
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: Handed BAT so i would kind of that's kind OF
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: HOW i, i gauged, you KNOW how i was going
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: to attack a picture based off of how they Would.
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: Attack nick and so it was huge for me to
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: have a left hander at the top of. The lineup
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: but then you had Guys, Like, Manny jonesy weedy hit.
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: Behind me like there was protection all throughout. The lineup
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: and to, your point there were. No breaks anybody in
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: that lineup at any time could take. You deep AND
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: so i think it put a lot of pressure on
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: opposing pitching staffs because there was there was no you
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: didn't get a, batter off and so it.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: Was funny we we. Always joked bu would.
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: Always say, you know we don't have to live and
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: die by the three run, home Run and, i'm like
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: it kind of works.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: For Us so i'm Not gonna i'm not gonna stop
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: them at.
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: Home runs but it was just such a good team
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: and and defensively we were. REALLY good i STILL have
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: i think it's up here behind me the uh we
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: hold the single season fielding percentage record for. A team
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: but it WAS just, i mean, You guys many's still.
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: Doing IT. Uh jj there were bow gloves all over.
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: The field it was just a unique group, of guys
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: man AND and i think one of the things that
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: really made it.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: Special is there were.
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: No superstars like you could Argue that jonesy was a
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: superstar because he was under contract and, he was, you
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: know The Perennial, all star but he didn't act like
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: a superstar like we were just we were. Baseball PLAYERS
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: and i think that that made it a lot easier
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: for everybody to go out and do their job because
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: nobody cared who got the credit as long as we won.
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: Baseball games.
• 37:55
  Speaker 9: It was a special Time.
• 37:56
  Speaker 8: In birdland and your, Guys group Brad and cress and
• 38:00
  Speaker 8: and the guys you've set you noted today will never
• 38:03
  Speaker 8: be forgotten in this town because you took them from
• 38:06
  Speaker 8: losers to Winners to.
• 38:07
  Speaker 9: October baseball you guys drinks around us.
• 38:12
  Speaker 8: For the rest of your Days in bergland for what
• 38:16
  Speaker 8: you guys. Did, now chris you noted in twenty three
• 38:19
  Speaker 8: when you came Back for Adam jones, jersey retirement you
• 38:22
  Speaker 8: aren't sure how the reception was, gonna go and it
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: went great because the fans more remembered the good times than.
• 38:29
  Speaker 9: The ending how do you sort all that out now
• 38:32
  Speaker 9: when your mind.
• 38:32
  Speaker 8: What happened at, The end and is it just an
• 38:35
  Speaker 8: anecdote you just flush it away or is it part
• 38:38
  Speaker 8: of a?
• 38:39
  Speaker 9: Bigger, resume yeah.
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: IT'S definitely i definitely don't flush it away because it
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: really helps me appreciate the. Earlier YEARS and i think
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: it also kind of helps me stay grounded because.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: The struggle was it was, so PROLONGED and i think
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: people ask me all the time. WHAT happened i continue
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: to try to PLAY when i.
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: Shouldn't HAVE and i, always thought, you know your best tool,
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: is availability and so THERE were i was.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: In a lot.
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: Of pain certain things had kind of started, popping Up and, i'm,
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: LIKE man i can't do THAT like i, used TO
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: and i didn't, know why and brock you, Know THIS
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: like i was always, A WORKER like i, Always thought
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: i'll just work my way out. Of it i'll just work,
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: Out harder i'll just, Hit more I'll just i'll just.
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: Keep going and that's not a good good recipe for success.
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: For anybody there are times when you need to take
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: a break and you need to address, certain things especially
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: if physically your body's. Breaking down and there's no shame.
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: In that but, for me it was. REALLY hard i
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: FELT like i owed it to the fans to at
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: least be, out there EVEN though i wasn't capable of
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: DOING what i really wanted TO and i wasn't. Sure
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: why but for me, like that that makes the journey
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: that much sweeter because it really helps me appreciate those
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: years that we were when it was tough to go
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: in there, every day when we were and we weren't trying,
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: to win, YOU know i think IT was i didn't
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: know really how to go. ABOUT it a lot OF
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: times i really leaned into my role as as kind
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: of the veteran guy in the clubhouse and tried to teach,
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: the guys the, younger guys this is the way that we,
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: do things this is why.
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: We do things.
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: This way but it was hard to go from from
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: such a, you know several years of success so much
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: success to just failure day in and, day out and
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: and for me to experience.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: That and kind of go through that with, the fans
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: the fans being a.
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: Huge deal, to ME and i know every, player feels,
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: you know a certain way about, fan bases BUT but,
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: I mean i Was in bultimore for, a DECADE so
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: i know a lot. OF fans i know a lot of,
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: Fans Personally like i've got a couple of them that
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: that texts Me that I'm that i'm, you know. Friends
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: with so it was hard for me to go through
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: THAT because i FELT like i was really letting. Everybody
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: down BUT when i came Back for, JONESY'S thing.
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: I didn't i didn't know what. To EXPECT so, i mean.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: They didn't they Did what. Birdland.
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: Does man they stood up for their guys and they welcomed.
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: Me back and one of the THINGS that i want
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: to be sure, TO mention i was standing on the
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: ondeck circle before we walked out on the field To,
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: honor adam and one of the season ticket HOLDERS who
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: I know i've seen in spring training leaned down, and, Said,
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: hey CRUSH and i turned around and, he, said, hey
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: man don't ever forget how much we loved you and
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: how much.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: We rooted for you.
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: Those years he's Like that you'll always Be crushed davis
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: to us and saying for him to say that to
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: me in, THAT moment i, was like it's hard not to,
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: get emotional, you know because you.
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: Think about all the times when you got booed.
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: Or whatever but it really it meant a lot, to
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: me and it meant it really showed me how much.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: They care so it was it was a special moment. For,
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: sure yeah.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: IT'S awesome i just Kind of i'm sure you've had
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: time to reflect, on everything and with the weekend, coming
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: up what would you say you're most proud of your Time.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: In baltimore is there one? Particular thing is there a multitude?
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: Of things is there anything you can kind of put.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: INTO words i know it's probably tough when you're trying
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: to yah with something, to.
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: SAY but i thought, about THAT and i really appreciate you.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: Asking that. It's hard it's hard because there are so.
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: Many, things honestly the THING that i keep coming back
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: to is the people man like, you guys, My Teammates
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: like i'm so THANKFUL that i had such a good
• 42:23
  Speaker 6: group of people to share. It WITH and i think
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: about the people at the stadium that took care of
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: our wives while we were out. There playing, at me
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: you were a part, of, it dude you were a
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: big part. Of it we all had like we were
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: kind of all on the same spot in. Our life we're,
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: all young we were, all married we were started having,
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: kids together like we were trying to establish ourselves as
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: big leaguers and just figure. It OUT and i think
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: that's really what what to me stands out. The MOST
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: that i loved being a part of the City. OF
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: baltimore i had no CLUE what i was getting INTO
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: when i. WAS traded i had Not like i've Been
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: to baltimore maybe a handful of times as an opposing
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: player and didn't venture out like went to the stadium
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: and went back to. The hotel so getting to do
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: things like the charity home run derby that we did
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: For The, children's Hospital Doing, casey Cares Doing christian, youth
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: athletics getting outside of the CITY and, i mean, excuse
• 43:11
  Speaker 6: me outside of the stadium and getting into. The city
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: that's REALLY what i remember. The MOST and i think
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: that's kind of what stuck. With me the baseball is,
• 43:17
  Speaker 6: the baseball.
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: YOU know, i mean hitting home runs, is great but
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: being able to kind of rub shoulders with people that
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: you might not rub shoulders with if you didn't do what,
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: you did and be a part of something outside of
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: the game and feel like you're really a part of,
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: the city to me is kind of what lasted the
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: most to. This day that's still my. FAVORITE house i
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: wish we haven't sold, that house but, BUT yeah i
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: think that's probably the THING that i remember the most
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: is just, the, people man the relationships that. You make, You, KNOW.
• 43:50
  Speaker 10: Chris i did want to go back to, the END
• 43:52
  Speaker 10: and i, just think, you know you at the top of.
• 43:55
  Speaker 10: The game you're one of the most feared hitters of,
• 43:57
  Speaker 10: all time and you get, the CONTRACT and i think
• 44:00
  Speaker 10: fans and sometimes people falling the mistake of viewing players almost,
• 44:05
  Speaker 10: as robots, like, oh well, you know he's getting a.
• 44:08
  Speaker 10: Big contract was it was. A matter but you're an
• 44:11
  Speaker 10: ultimate competitor to make. The majors you're an ultimate competitor
• 44:15
  Speaker 10: to reach the heights that you did in. Your career
• 44:19
  Speaker 10: what was it like from a mental standpoint going through at,
• 44:23
  Speaker 10: The end it.
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: WAS tough i remember, hearing THAT and i got off
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: social media years AGO because i just didn't want to hear.
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: THE noise i had enough to focus on without having
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: to deal with.
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: All THAT and i remember, hearing, that well, Who cares he's,
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: still Rich and, i'm like that's, you guys think that's
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: what drives us like you if you're if you are
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: a rookie in the, big leagues you're making over half a.
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: Million dollars like the money IS is i call it.
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: Monopoly money it's billionaires. Paying millionaires it's it's that's not what.
• 44:56
  Speaker 6: It's about and and so to, Your, point tim when
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: you're so competitive and you're not able, to compete and
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: you were able to compete at a very high level for,
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: several years it is. SO frustrating, I Mean i i've
• 45:10
  Speaker 6: told this story to a handful, of PEOPLE but i
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: remember one of the nights we WERE in DC and
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: i took my hat OFF and i was.
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: Stressed out it was it was towards the end of
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: the twenty. NINETEEN season i was.
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: Stressed out jill and the girls were, back HOME so
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: I was i Was in baltimore, by MYSELF and i
• 45:27
  Speaker 6: took my hat off on the DUGOUT and i looked
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: down and my hair was in, my hat like my
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: hair was.
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: Going on like that's how.
• 45:32
  Speaker 6: Stressed out and aside from THINKING that i was going
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: bald in the middle of a big, League game, i'm
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: like WHAT do?
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: I do?
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: You KNOW and i just, felt LOST man I and
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: i didn't know what, to do AND and i should have.
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: REACHED out i really should have reached out to some people.
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: Around ME but i don't KNOW if i, was EMBARRASSED
• 45:52
  Speaker 6: if i was. TOO proud i JUST thought i could
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: figure it out.
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: On, my own AND AND i i wasn't ever. Able to.
• 46:00
  Speaker 6: What's really frustrating is going into the twenty, TWENTY season
• 46:04
  Speaker 6: i FELT like i had had found had kind of found,
• 46:07
  Speaker 6: it again Me and Manny and Scope and selway's joke
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: like in the, batting cage like if you, find it
• 46:12
  Speaker 6: leave it in there for the. Next guy AND so
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: i remember texting Or TELLING scope i. FOUND it i,
• 46:20
  Speaker 6: found it, you know and, he's, like oh leave it,
• 46:21
  Speaker 6: for me leave it. For ME but i was going
• 46:24
  Speaker 6: into spring TRAINING and I was i was, crushed again,
• 46:29
  Speaker 6: YOU know.
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: I was i was hammering.
• 46:30
  Speaker 6: THE ball i felt so good at the, PLATE physically
• 46:34
  Speaker 6: i Had gotten i'd kind of put a little bit
• 46:36
  Speaker 6: of weight, Back on i'd gotten. Stronger again And then
• 46:40
  Speaker 6: i'm getting ready to Go To fort myers in the
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: world shuts down And so i'm. Like no and then
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: we started back up Again in august and it just wasn't.
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: The same by, that time my knee had been.
• 46:51
  Speaker 6: Bothering me it was just so FRUSTRATING because i really
• 46:55
  Speaker 6: wanted that one last chance to PROVE that i was
• 46:58
  Speaker 6: worth the money that they spent.
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: On me and so that's.
• 47:02
  Speaker 6: It's hard but at the end of, the, day man
• 47:04
  Speaker 6: there's no blueprint, for this. You know THAT'S why i
• 47:06
  Speaker 6: think it's so incredible Guys like kershaw that that can.
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: Go out on their. Own terms it's, so, Hard man
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: it is just. So.
• 47:13
  Speaker 9: Hard man what Great, stuff chris, You Know and I've told.
• 47:19
  Speaker 8: Brad this one of the great things is the media
• 47:21
  Speaker 8: guy of that ERA is i knew there are good
• 47:24
  Speaker 8: guys In that it's uniforms winning Games.
• 47:27
  Speaker 9: For birdland and if it was a, TOUGH time i
• 47:32
  Speaker 9: KNEW and.
• 47:32
  Speaker 8: I walked, in there you guys would be at your
• 47:34
  Speaker 8: locker to answer whatever. We had you never, ducked, it,
• 47:38
  Speaker 8: good bad. Or indifferent and we saw that in this, show,
• 47:41
  Speaker 8: today man you are very honest with you. Your thoughts
• 47:44
  Speaker 8: we can't wait To see birdland honor you again Along
• 47:47
  Speaker 8: With storm davis and along with The Late jim russo
• 47:50
  Speaker 8: And Lets your mind the. Fans again tickets are available
• 47:53
  Speaker 8: orioles dot com slash tickets Both for friday's Lunch and
• 47:57
  Speaker 8: saturday's game and ceremony.
• 47:58
  Speaker 9: On field tommy going to be introducing you is he's
• 48:02
  Speaker 9: so as funny as?
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: He was, OH yeah i. CANNOT well i talked to
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: him YESTERDAY and i, was, like hey are? You Ready
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: and i'm not going to tell you how, he responded.
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: Because it's just we, Meet him BUT but, I went,
• 48:14
  Speaker 6: I mean, I said i told. HIM yesterday, i said
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: whether you like it, Or, not bud we're in this.
• 48:17
  Speaker 6: Thing TOGETHER and i told him that from, day one
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: like we got. Traded Together and TOMMY and i talked
• 48:22
  Speaker 6: more than than probably of my, other teammates. More CONSISTENTLY
• 48:26
  Speaker 6: but i cannot wait to hear what he has to
• 48:30
  Speaker 6: say at.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: The launch he was, never dull that is for.
• 48:36
  Speaker 9: Darn sure got trade worked out great for you two.
• 48:39
  Speaker 8: And many And, all, Birdland buddy because twenty twelve through,
• 48:42
  Speaker 8: twenty sixteen, three playoffs most wins in, The league buck And.
• 48:46
  Speaker 8: The boys it, Was. Special chris thanks for sharing that
• 48:50
  Speaker 8: look safe Travels to birdland and we will.
• 48:53
  Speaker 9: See you this weekend At the Hall of.
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: Fame ceremony. That's good thanks guys for having me on